Sociology: Recent submissions
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Future history : global fantasies in seventeenth-century American and British writings
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Future History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East-West axis to fantasize their place in the world. The book builds on new transoceanic scholarship and recent calls to approach ... -
Funded! : successful grantwriting for your nonprofit
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Funded! leads readers from knowing nothing about writing grants to having a complete grant proposal. Based on personal experience and the experiences of dozens of professional nonprofit grantwriters, students learn about ... -
From Natural Character to Moral Virtue in Aristotle
(Oxford University Press, 2017)From Natural Character to Moral Virtue in Aristotle discusses Aristotle's biological views about character and the importance of what he calls 'natural character traits' for the development of moral virtue as presented in ... -
Flora of Middle-Earth : plants of J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Few settings in literature are as widely known or celebrated as J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth. The natural landscape plays a major role in nearly all of Tolkien's major works, and readers have come to view the geography ... -
Foundations of modern macroeconomics exercise and solutions manual
(Oxford University Press, 2017)The study of macroeconomics can seem a daunting project. The field is complex and sometimes poorly defined and there are a variety of competing approaches. It is easy for the senior bachelor and starting master student to ... -
Finding meaning in an imperfect world
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Does life have meaning? Is it possible for life to be meaningful when the world is filled with suffering and when so much depends merely upon chance? Even if there is meaning, is there enough to justify living? These ... -
The evolution of international arbitration : judicialization, governance, legitimacy
(Oxford University Press, 2017)The development of international arbitration as an autonomous legal order is one of the most remarkable stories of institution building at the global level over the past century. Today, transnational firms and states settle ... -
Advertising : what everyone needs to know
(Oxford University Press, 2017)3000. That's the number of marketing messages the average American confronts on a daily basis from TV commercials, magazine and newspaper print ads, radio commercials, pop-up ads on gaming apps, pre-roll ads on YouTube ... -
The enforcement of EU law and values : ensuring member states' compliance
(Oxford University Press, 2017)It is clear that the current crisis of the EU is not confined to the Eurozone and the EMU, evidenced in its inability to ensure the compliance of Member States to follow the principles and values underlying the integration ... -
Digital DNA : disruption and the challenges for global governance
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Innovation in information and production technologies is creating benefits and disruption, profoundly altering how firms and markets perform. Digital DNA provides an in depth examination of the opportunities and challenges ... -
Debating religious liberty and discrimination
(Oxford University Press, 2017)The book is organized as follows. Each side begins with an opening essay. Corvino’s essay explores the worry that religious liberty is today morphing into religious privilege, favoring not only religious citizens over their ... -
Cracking the China conundrum : why conventional economic wisdom is wrong
(Oxford University Press, 2017)China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention. Despite extensive media and academic scrutiny, the conventional wisdom about China's economy is often ... -
Contextualising knowledge : epistemology and semantics
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Jonathan Ichikawa develops a contextualist semantics for knowledge ascriptions, and shows how it can illuminate foundational questions in epistemology. He argues that in thinking clearly about knowledge, epistemologists ... -
Commitment and cooperation on high courts : a cross-country examination of institutional constraints on judges
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Judicial decision-making may ideally be impartial, but in reality it is influenced by many different factors, including institutional context, ideological commitment, fellow justices on a panel, and personal preference. ... -
Commands : a cross-linguistic typology
(Oxford University Press, 2017)This book focuses on the form and the function of commands-directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders-from a typological perspective. A team of internationally-renowned experts in the field examine the ... -
Coastal works : cultures of the Atlantic edge
(Oxford University Press, 2017)In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which ... -
A philosophy for the science of well-being
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Well-being, happiness and quality of life are now established objects of social and medical research. Does this science produce knowledge that is properly about well-being? What sort of well-being? The definition and ... -
Demographic Change and Economic Growth: Simulations on Growth Models
(Physica-Verlag , 2010)In this book the author investigates the impact of demographic change on economic growth. As a result of the current financial crisis, a new view on economics has been demanded by various scientists. The author provides ... -
Resourcing Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: A Financial Growth Life Cycle Approach
(Physica-Verlag , 2010)In a world of increasing financial uncertainty and growing unemployment, the macroeconomic contribution of SMEs is more important than ever. Development of a vibrant, sustainable small firm sector is dependent on sufficient ... -
Risk Management in Credit Portfolios: Concentration Risk and Basel II
(Physica-Verlag , 2010)Risk concentrations play a crucial role for the survival of individual banks and for the stability of the whole banking system. Thus, it is important from an economical and a regulatory perspective to properly measure and ...
